Humble John Henry Newman

by Carl R. Trueman

For all of his intellectual brilliance, John Henry Newman had a humble concern for ordinary people. Continue Reading »

9 Oct 2019

Marilynne Robinson and the Mystery of Grace

by Moriah Speciale

Marilynne Robinson's Gilead should be read as a summa pietatis rather than a summa theologiae.  Continue Reading »

24 May 2019

Marcion on the Elbe

by Ludger Schwienhorst-Schönberger

Accusations of anti-Judaism are flying in Germany. In a 2013 essay, “Die Kirche und das Alte Testament” (The Church and the Old Testament), Notger Slenczka, a Protestant theologian at the Humboldt University of Berlin, argued that the Old Testament “should not have canonical validity in the . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Dec 2018

The Monster's Servant

by Richard Rex

Thomas Cromwell:  A Revolutionary Life by diarmaid macculloch viking, 752 pages, $40 They said it could not be done. At least Sir Geoffrey Elton, to whose memory his former doctoral student has dedicated this book, said it could not be done. According to him, as Diarmaid MacCulloch reminds us, . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Nov 2018

The Reformation We Need

by Carl R. Trueman

We need a new understanding of what is at stake.  Continue Reading »

31 Oct 2018

Lust and Augustine

by Dale M. Coulter

For Augustine, love is the most basic appetite of the soul. Continue Reading »

12 Jul 2018

Common Prayer, or Predictable Politics?

by Carl R. Trueman

Christian liturgy—and God himself—have become victims of the abolition of the pre-political. Continue Reading »

10 Jul 2018

Giving Your Testimony

by John Wilson

Reading Ink, I was taken back to the churches I attended in Pomona, California in the 1950s. Continue Reading »

6 Jul 2018

Learning From Luther

by Carl R. Trueman

The Making of Martin Luther by richard rex princeton, 296 pages, $27.95 1517: Martin Luther and the Invention of the Reformation by peter marshall oxford, 278 pages, $24.95 A World Ablaze: The Rise of Martin Luther and the Birth of the Reformation by craig harline  oxford, 312 pages, . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Jun 2018

What Happens in Germany

by Charles J. Chaput

The resolution of the intercommunion question in Germany will have far-reaching consequences in the Church. Continue Reading »

23 May 2018